Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Metacafe

https://metacafe.com/

Metacafe is perhaps YouTube’s most ardent competitor in content. You can upload videos up to ninety seconds on the site, so the resource is clearly not suitable for streamers. Metacafe is what you need for live content. And according to statistics, about forty million unique viewers visit the resource every month.

*Metacafe was an Israeli video-sharing website, launched in July 2003. During the mid-2000s it was one of the largest video-sharing websites,[citation needed] though it eventually began to be superseded by YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. In August 2021, the platform's website became inactive, along with its social media pages having become abandoned. 

Viddler – Americans make up just over 44% of users.

LiveLeak – Americans make up about 41% of users.

Video.Yahoo.com. – Almost 50% of users are Americans.

Myspace

https://myspace.com/

In addition to the fact that Myspace was once a popular social network, it’s still a great platform for video content. An excellent resource that wins in several ways at once. You can publish on the resource high-quality videos, and downloading and conversion are very fast.

Myspace leads in the 10 most popular video resources in the United States. Today, this social network is steadily losing its users, and currently about 25 million people are registered in the social network.

We told you only about twelve platforms, which are the best in our opinion. But there exist many more hosts and sites. Below we have collected a small selection of resources that have the largest American audience. These resources are different from what we described, but nonetheless quite popular.




Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/

This can be a very unexpected platform, but Flicker also allows you to upload content in the form of video, even if it will be in a very limited amount. It is a recognized platform with several features, but there is always room for improvement. Flickr will allow you to create a free account, but this is limited to downloading videos with a time limit of only ninety seconds.

However, if you can ignore this fact, then there is no doubt that this YouTube alternative will become your favorite in the shortest possible time.




Veoh

https://veoh.com/index.html

Veoh is another great alternative to YouTube, and besides providing a clean interface for potentially millions of users, it has many benefits. Firstly, you can download any video of any length, which means that here for content creators there is a “no delay” situation.

Secondly, there are many social features that will allow you to start sharing your content with friends and other people, and if they like your content, your popularity will grow exponentially.

The platform is not particularly popular among Americans – only 23%.




9Gag TV

https://9gag.com/tag/video

If you use Facebook or Twitter, then you’ve met 9Gag brand one hundred percent. The channel provides a lot of entertainment in the form of images, GIFs, memes and much more, but here everything is getting better. 9Gag TV is a section where a large number of videos are posted, mainly for entertainment purposes.

The platform is perfect if you want to develop your blog, like jokes or have the dream of becoming a famous prankster. 230 million people visit the platform monthly and this is a pretty good indicator.





Snapchat

https://www.snapchat.com/

Today, Snapchat allows you to post about ten seconds of video, but many popular users put together several videos and images to tell interesting stories. However, these stories, like everyone else on Snapchat, disappear twenty-four hours after loading. Despite this feature, many brands have achieved great success on this platform.

The company has an extensive active user base. About 158 million use Snapchat daily, about 2.5 billion users are registered.

The target audience of the company are teenagers. According to statistics, 57 million Americans use this application, 85% of which are users 13-14 years old.




Facebook

 https://m.facebook.com/

Since we have touched the video sites of other social networks, then it’s also worth talking about Facebook. In 2016, the company was in a race with YouTube launched Facebook Live and Facebook 360 Video. The resource allows you to record stories, live broadcasts and just upload videos.

The main advantage of Facebook is its huge built-in audience. According to company reports, its number is almost 1.8 billion users (which is the highest rate in the world) and continues to grow steadily.

An important feature of the social network is that the videos are launched automatically in the user’s feed without sound. On the one hand, this is a great way to interest the viewer, encourage him to view it further, on the other hand, silent playback must now be taken into account when you are creating a video.




IGTV

 https://www.instagram.com/

Instagram surprised everyone by launching its streaming platform called IGTV.

Using a smartphone, you can download a movie for up to fifteen minutes, and through a computer – up to sixty. All videos open in vertical orientation. This format was chosen based on the fact that this platform is purely for smartphones.

IGTV is suitable for you if you want to share life hacks, advertise goods and you already have a large audience on Instagram.

Selection of looks, cosmetics, life hacks, a brief overview of new products in the world of technology or a video about the company, and these are all IGTV formats.

In addition to IGTV, stories and videos on Instagram are still quite popular. On January 31, 2019, Mark Zuckerberg shared information that over five hundred  million users a day view Instagram Stories posts.




VEVO

 https://www.hq.vevo.com/

It is professional video-hosting service for music videos. Today, more than four hundred  thousand videos have been uploaded to the platform and monthly visits reach 1 billion users. This is a treasure for those who want to enjoy an endless repository of music videos and promote their creativity.

The platform is associated with other video hosting services, and many videos are duplicated on YouTube or firetv.

Unlike other platforms, you can’t upload your videos for free here, but you can easily fix this by subscribing to the platform. You can also upload videos to the host in high quality and without time limits. It is worth considering  that in many countries of Eastern Europe the platform is not available.

Vevo is an exclusively commercial narrow direction platform suitable for clip makers and performers.




Dailymotion

 https://www.dailymotion.com/us

If not YouTube, then definitely Dailymotion. The platform has a similar interface and set of functions, so you quickly get used to it. But unlike YouTube, Dailymotion is more concise and more pleasant to use.

On the resource, all the videos are sorted into main categories. Download videos in HD quality is possible only with a paid subscription and the time limit for such videos is only sixty minutes. And when you subscribe, you get an expanded set of tools for analysis to properly build brand development.

Dailymotion is popular with magazines, clothing brands, and cultural projects. The platform is suitable for publishing creative videos, interviews, videos about fashion and art, reviews on a variety of topics.




TWITCH

https://m.twitch.tv/

Twitch is a professional streaming platform, but it also has the saving streams function. On the service, you can relate your product, see comments, statistics and even make a subscription to the channel be paid.

By the way, for convenience, you can download Twitch to your computer, there are versions for Windows and Mac.

The video platform audience are gamers, developers of games, applications and other digital entertainment. So, if you want to review a new application, or like to stream gameplay, then Twitch is for you.




VIMEO

https://vimeo.com/

It is a video platform that is famous for beautiful content.

Vimeo has a very concise design and a minimum of extraneous noise, so when you are watching video, notifications and ads will not distract you. Vimeo is good for its quality content, in contrast to the entertaining nature of YouTube. 35% of users are Americans.

A cool feature of the platform is the stock content. There are many different videos that you can buy and then use for your work. All such videos are no more than 20 seconds long and are of high quality.

If you want to develop and create a high-quality movie, Vimeo is a perfect platform to share your work and inspire others. The resource is suitable for recording juicy videos, such as music videos, travel blogs, or arthouse short films.


VIMEO


Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Feb 28, 2024 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn "Weeds". New York, 1985.

The Prophecies of Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

'And wherever I live, and whatever I do, I am eternally indebted to my MotherLand?
Therefore, because I had the misfortune of being born on the territory of this country, I am obliged to subordinate them interests entire life my convictions?
Motherland and Fatherland don't choose?
For some reason, this thesis only evokes laughter among all civilized people of the world. If a person who wants to reveal his abilities does not have suitable conditions in his country of residence, he easily moves to another country, as if to a neighboring quarter - choosing the most favorable conditions from those available. And only in countries predisposed to the dictatorial dominance of the primitive over the more advanced, one of which I have the misfortune to call the place of my birth, am I deprived of the right to this choice. This tendency promotes inertia, stagnation, the preservation of the obsolete and the general degradation of the region.
Civilized people, country  know how to learn from the best, more capable, more gifted and more strong. When 'more developed region conquer a region with more stupid population', this ultimately leads to the benefit of the latter, despite the inevitable sacrifices.
What happened to Europe after Napoleon conquered it? And what happened to India - when the English came there?
But the trouble with primitivism is that people with a primitive way of thinking do not know how, cannot, do not want to recognize realibe and  they replasiv and with desired illusory meaning. In conjunction with this primitively developed society, in the process demonstration self-importance, ascribes to itself imaginary merits to which it has no relationship, and therefore, in the eyes of civilization, they have no significance, even as Slaves.
But it is naive to expect that a nation with higher development, having subjugated an inferior one, will give it equal rights!
But the people of primitive community development fight, even where and when it makes no sense, and very often win. Their vitality is like that of weeds - with the same sterility.
The guilt of the primitive communites before the evolution of mankind is that they constantly spoiled the game more stronger socery with their unwillingness to vacate the place they occupied.
Anyone who wants to destroy the Soviet countrys, etnic group, peoples, diaspors, clans needs to know the following:
Throughout their history of Russian Empire, the Normans, were strong in what they hammered into their slaves' heads the conviction, blind and fanatical - that Faith, Power and Homeland are not chosen!
The inviolability of the first and second was shaken quite recently, and everyone knows what turn on and instability, what a blow this dialt to the Russian Empire - and the strength of the jews communists occupated Russian Empery was that they were able to quickly replace the fallen blocs with equally monolithic ones, instead of Faith and the Tsar, faith of Communism and Stalin.
But if these cult idols, slogans, and symbols as the support of Soviet moral and legal norms are smashed into small pieces, all Soviet countries, ethnic groups, diasporas, clans, and peoples will cease to exist.
Let there be many faiths, many ideas - red, yellow, blue, even orange - pluralism.
Let there be many leaders - arguing about who is the most important, killing each other in the rush to spread their influence - democracy.
Let there be many Fatherlands - republic, regions, districts, clans, families - sovereignty!
Let there be a war in which three quarters of those living today will die - as it was in Ukraine in the seventeenth century. But those who survive and get used to the new rules will be the self nature civilized people, able to painlessly integrate into the new world order.'

And here is what Erich Koch, Gauleiter of the 'Reichskommissariat of Ukraine', wrote about this a little earlier:

'The Reich is interested in deliveries of useful products from the occupied territories of the Soviet Union, for this target the survival of the natives is not a necessary condition.
Its ask me when the Reich will receive at least some economic benefit from the captured Soviet territories?
And I answer: never as long as there territory living Soviet ethnic groups calling themselves Slaves. The point is that the Slaves are a wild people.
I'm talking now not about their underdevelopment, sloppiness, laziness. Here I mean that sayd about animals are referred to as "wild" or "domestic" and if the latter can be brought into submission with a whip, then a wild beast by nature will not become docile when beaten. The same is true with peoples, regardless of culture - an African black or a civilized Frenchman, having submitted to force, will integrate themselves into the any new order, having resigned themselves to their lower level.
This the Slaves are not even capable of appreciating the proper care that a good master gives to a working animal - if you turn away, they will stab you in the back, simply because you are their master!
At here I am talking about Russian Slaves - since the western subspecies of Slaves, Poles or Ukrainians, have already been significantly ennobled by the proximity of European civilization. Thus, among the Poles, it is quite common to voluntarily recognize a hierarchy in which they place themselves below us, Germans, but much above Russians and Ukrainians. The same can be said about the Galicians, who in former times were under the rule not of Russia, but of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
And the yellow-blue banner of the 'true Ukrainians' was at one time the flag of the auxiliary units of the army of Charles of Sweden, who served him faithfully and truly against the Russian Holstein-Gottorp dynasty (a junior branch of the German House of Oldenburg that ruled Denmark). Colonize, exploit Slaves of Vikkings? This is utopia! Unprofitable - you will simply go broke on the need to maintain security. Consequently, the Reich is in no way interested in the preservation of this useless people. Let them die out like the American Indians - or survive in small numbers in remote forests as an object of study for anthropologists.
The right to live as our slaves must also be earned - through loyalty, honesty, and diligence.'

but excuse me, both the Soviet social socialist leaders and the German national-socialist leaders proceed from the understanding of ownership of people as animals - pigs, cows, sheep, goats and others. But what about Wolves, Bears, Lions, Panthers?
They also consider pigs, cows, sheep, goats, and others as their property, which, if they do not exploit, then they are part of their nutritional ration, and here social, and national leaders - takzhe for them is only food.
Nature here is a third force that is higher than both leaders and animals, including man, and as the practice of loving conquest shows, it ends with all time  tragedies - where they on nature what  speak wildly only because this world is not under their control.
And who knows how it will all end ?

Maybe you same will by interest:
- Socialists, Communists, Trade Unionist, Zionists, Nazists... When did they come to kill, or when again will they come to rob, rape, kill
- The Tale of the Revolution and a Personalitys - from marerials archive of cases of State security Soviet Union;
- Soviet Holocaust in East Prussia;
- The Political Testamentas of Adolf Hitler;
- Theory of Nationalism, 88 articls from David Lain